Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...year ago, A. F. of L.'s President William Green came across a letter from Princeton, N. J. The missive suggested that in these troubled times Mr. Green could do himself and the public a service by writing a book on Labor's role in democracy. This week Labor and Democracy* appeared under William Green's signature.† Mr. Green being a busy and none too articulate man, readers could reasonably conclude that his first book was the fruit of collaboration with some brainy hireling...
Idle and restless at last week's end were 55,000 Chrysler employes and upwards of 50,000 more in affected supply plants. It was 30 days since Chrysler Corp. began to answer union slowdowns with shutdowns in Detroit. Wage losses totted up to $4,000,000. The corporation had lost the first cream of 1940's new business, seemed willing to go on losing while its executives and union spokesmen bickered, belied each other, failed even to agree on what the fighting was about. Union wives badgered their men to get back to work. Union men wished...
...Communists the world over, including those in the U. S., took a raincheck on revolution. Object: by joining a "united front" for capitalist democracy, to make the democracies allies of Soviet Russia against Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and Imperialist Japan. Last week world Communists, including those in the U. S., turned in the raincheck, came out from behind their false whiskers, and announced that they had just been fooling: they want their revolution after all. The new Communist name for revolution is "quick transition...
...object of his party, said he, returning to Joseph Stalin's old theme: that the U. S. is ripe for collapse and revolutionary restitution. Of his more recent declarations (that socialism is not now practicable for the capitalistic U. S.) Earl Browder made no mention last week. Said he, abandoning Communist support of Roosevelt's foreign and domestic policies...